If you smoke for a short period of time then you have less chance of serious health problems however if you smoke for a long period of time then you have more chance of having serious health problems.
The earlier someone starts to smoke the harder it will be for them to give up later on in life.
Teenagers are more likly to smoke because they are influances from there peers and also if the teenagers parents smoke then they also are more likly to smoke.Another problem with smoking is that when women smoke when they are pregnant.The reason this is a problem is because of the following:
- More likly to have a under weight baby
- Twice as likly to have a premature baby
- A trird more likly to have a still born baby
- More likly to have a miscarriage.
Studies have shown that smokers aged 65 to 74 years old are almost 10 times more likly to die of lung cancer then those of this age group who do not smoke,because of the harmfuleffects of continuing to smoke even in old age it is important that elderly people consider trying to stop.However this may be more difficult for them because the longer a person has smoked for,the stronger the addiction of nicotine.
Why do people smoke?
Most people smoke because it helps them to lose weight this is because when you smoke it makes you feel less hungrey so this way you lose weight,however this is not a good way to lose weight because there are a lot of health risks involed.
Reenagers take the drug because they feel that it make's them feel cool however there not the ones that have to deal with all of the health problems not all the people who think that he or she is cool.
How can we stop teenages from taking this drug?
I feel that school's should tell children and teenages about the risks of smoking and all the dieaes that it can give you.This can make a very big difference to the amout of teenagers that smoke.I also feel that parents are the biggest influance on teenages this is because if the parents smoke themself then the teenages are influanced.The feel that if my parents smoke then why can't I.I feel that teenages should also play a part in all of this as well as the parents this is that they should make sure that they are not getting mixed up in the wrong crowd.Parents should also stop smoking for good because even if the teenager doent smoke they still can be effected this is because the child or teenager can breath in there parents smoke this is called passive smoking.
Also if you smoke you will die earilar then you were supose to and your health while you are alive will be very bad it will be like dieding while your still alive.
If there are small infants in the house then you will be killing them as well as your self and you may even make them deaf if they are always around cigraette smoke.
This woman can have cancer of the mounth,throat and gullet,bronchitis and emphtsema,pancreatic cancer,stroke,coronary heart disease,lung cancer,bladder cancer and blocked arteries just because she smokes and she can also harm her child by smoking.
How it effects you?
Smoking effects you because it lets less oxgen in to your brain and more cardon monoxide which is very bad.It also does the same with the lungs so it is much harder to breath easily.If you smoke for a long time then your liver and kidneys could fail esspesally if you smoke to many at once.
So please think twice before smoking.
By Tajinder Kaur.
